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Monthly Archives: September, 2014

Building our communities

Labor’s Community Service Agency: 40 Years and Counting

Labor’s Community Service Agency has spent the last four decades reaching out to help those in need
National

Nation’s largest pension fund getting out of hedge funds

CalPERS is fed up with sky-high fees, unimpressive performance, and too much complexity
National

American Airlines agents unionize: Biggest union win in the South in decades

Workers join a 14,500-member bargaining unit represented jointly by CWA and the Teamsters
Oregon

DOL awards $10.2 million grants to fight worker misclassification

Oregon will get $500,000 to crack down on employers who skirt the unemployment insurance system
Oregon

A senator for the working class

In his first 6-year term, Jeff Merkley has proven to be one of organized labor’s closest allies
Workers Rights

Fired pro-union PIRG fundraiser takes settlement after devastating crash

David Neal held out during a lengthy legal battle, but in the end agreed to waive reinstatement
Culture

Stories of women in the trades to be presented on stage

The play is based on in-depth interviews with 15 African-American tradeswomen from around the U.S.
Green Jobs

Labor to join rally to demand action on climate change

The NYC event is expected to be the largest climate change rally ever
Building our communities

Quilt raffle to benefit Guide Dogs

The group provides service dogs, free of charge, to the blind.
People

Labor attorney Christine Frost recognized by OTLA

Oregon Trial Lawyers Association presented the award at its annual convention in August.
People

Bend letter carrier receives ‘Hero of the Year’ award from union

Steve Filson of NALC Branch 1937 used CPR to save a victim of heart failure
Union democracy

Carpenters Local 156, formed in a 2011 merger, splits into two

Local 156 is replaced with newly formed Locals 1503 and 271.
Worker safety

New program offers scholarships for kids of workers killed, injured on job

The newly formed Oregon group is a chapter of a national organization
Workers Rights

Unions join women’s groups in new statewide campaign

SEIU, Planned Parenthood, OEA, and others team up to push economic justice agenda for women
Comment

The 2014 election is about giving Oregonians a fair shot

A fair shot: higher minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and a chance to retire
Politics

Kitzhaber appoints new round of unionists to state boards

The volunteer boards advise state agencies or oversee state institutions
Politics

Top two, take two: Centrist millionaires put a post-partisan primary before Oregon voters, again

Most unions are mobilizing to oppose Measure 90, but Oregon Working Families Party is for it
Union democracy

National building trades sees natural gas as ‘once in a generation’ opportunity to grow ranks

The annual Oregon building trades convention drew a who's who of the state's top elected officials
Union Organizing

Siemens medical equipment workers unionize with IBEW Local 48

Campaign benefits from workers resolve — and solidarity from a German union
Collective bargaining

Longshore workers ratify contract at NW grain terminals

Lockouts end at grain facilities in Portland and Vancouver
People

Women of Vision award goes to NECA/IBEW Training Center’s Bridget Quinn

Quinn works to recruit new electrical apprentices, including women and minorities
Our Jobs

Oregon denies key permit for Ambre Energy coal terminal in Boardman

Construction unions supported the project, which pledged to use all-union labor
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